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after school weekend edition

Welcome back to After School Weekend Edition, a not-so-brief trends debrief for paid subscribers. Your support keeps this newsletter going!

In today’s letter

• The new economic anxiety and trinket girl tariffs

• A Creed song, a viral $750 ballgown, and other early prom 2025 trends

• The NSFW trend high schoolers are doing (that I debated not even telling you about because it’s so dumb!!!!)

• The skirt everyone’s wearing at Coachella

• The “god forbid” TikTok trend

• Grey’s Anatomy as a “barometer” of mental health

• The new viral Netflix’s rom-com that’s inspiring girls to change their lives

• Gen Zers are using email formatting as an age detector

• The rise of Ariana Grande’s R.e.m. Beauty

And so, so much more, plus everything I’m buying, reading, and listening to. But first, my favorite TikTok of the week:

@jordanmcmeanshopecore

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